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Hump

noun

1.

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling. "The hump of a camel" , "He stood on the rocky prominence" , "The occipital protuberance was well developed" , "The bony excrescence between its horns"

verb

1.

Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward. Synonyms: hunch, hunch forward, hunch over.

2.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

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"Hump" Quotes from Famous Books

... feet,—lengthening prodigiously,—sometimes, mixing, fill all the way; sometimes, at a turn, rise up to climb the trees. Huge masses of frondage, catching the failing light, take strange fiery color;—the sun's rim almost touches one violet hump in the western ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... was the chief reason why I was never last in. Dressing was a problem, for every one must needs dress at the same time, and from the outside the tent must have looked something like a camel whose hump was constantly slipping. Perhaps that is why every one used safety-razors after a while, for although our faces would frequently look as though they had been mixed up in barbed wire, there was really not much danger of cutting one's throat, for even though ...

— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

... with Buck Duane. He's on secret ranger service for me. Service that'll likely make you all hump soon! Mind you, keep mum ...

— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey

... Stanley's gesture and the frantic clicking of the camera shutter, I looked more closely at the curious, saucerlike hump. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... the lower woodcut, a notable instance of Bewick's power of abstraction. You will observe that one of the chief characters of this frog, which makes him humorous,—next to his vain endeavor to get some firmness into his fore feet,—is his obstinately angular hump-back. And you must feel, when you see it so marked, how important a general character of a frog it is to have a hump-back,—not at ...

— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin

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